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Windows 95 General Troubleshooting
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General Windows 95 troubleshooting issues, including dealing with program crashes, displaying detailed system information, creating a boot disk, and more.


#1: Print out a System Summary
Print Windows 95 system information, useful to provide to techies if you are having system problems.

#2: View IRQ, DMA, Mem Addresses
View technical IRQ and DMA information under Windows 95.

#3: Graphics Cards and Modems
Is your modem not working after installing a new graphics card in Windows 95?

#4: How Much Physical Memory Left?
Find out how much physical memory is left with Windows 95; if there is a lot of memory left, you may not thrash the hard drive as much.

#5: Change System Monitor Graph Styles
Other ways to monitor your Windows 95 system statistics.

#6: Forcing Windows 95 to Use the Hard Drive Less
Is Windows 95 constantly thrashing the hard drive? Here are some possible solutions to this problem.

#7: Emergency, Emergency Disk Now!!!
Create a Windows 95 emergency boot disk in case of system failure. Here's how.

#8: Visual Basic 3 Program Errors
Seeing VBRUN300.DLL errors? If so, you're having trouble running programs written with Visual Basic 3 in Windows 95. Here's how to fix this problem.

#9: Capture Error Messages for Technical Support
This tip is invaluable if you have to contact technical support for computer problems with Windows 95.

#10: Scanners Not Appearing in Device Manager
Should you be concerned if your scanner does not appear in the Windows 95 Device Manager? If the scanner works, maybe not - here's why.

#11: Keeping a Better Tab on your Resources Revisited
More ways to manage your Windows 95 system resources.

#12: Forgot Your Windows Password?
If you have forgotten your Windows 95 password, this tip may be of assistance.

#13: Crashes with AMD K6-2 300 and above
Having problems with Windows 95 crashing on AMD K6-2 based machines? This tip may have the solution.

#14: Viewing Logs
Would you like to view your bootup log, modem detection log, etc. in Windows 95?

#15: Shutting Down a Stuck Application
This may save you from having to reboot your Windows 95 machine.

#16: Keep a Better Tab on Your Resources
Monitor system resources to maximize Windows 95 efficiency.

#17: Windows 95 Antivirus
Looking for Windows 95 antivirus tools? Here's where to download them.

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